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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 29, 1809 - October 7, 1894

Topics

Beauty Future Wisdom Past Abstract

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

Motivational Goals Myself Stand Long

After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one - no one - has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter.

History American Know Nothing Matter

Workers are baking the pie of prosperity, but they're not sharing in those dividends. That's unfair.

Baking Pie Sharing Prosperity Unfair

People have debated both sides of the Liefeld influence, good and bad, and I maintain the sales and the results of that time bear out that people love that stuff.

Love Good Time People Influence Bad

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

India Company Over Production East

My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There's not much room for mistakes when you're competing against the sun for a person's attention.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Beach Mistakes Sun Me Tough You

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he's feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

Family Time Husband Feeling Where

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

Community Great Democracy Questioning

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

Water Magic Planet Contained

Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27.

Look Old Years Like About Besides

I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.

People Me Impress Harvard Yale

In my experience, all Americans - Republicans, Democrats, and everyone in between - want roughly the same thing: an assurance that if they work hard, they can create a better life for themselves and their families. They want to feel safe in their communities and secure in their future.

Life Work Future Experience Better

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